Improvement in waiters



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Waiter.

No. 207,475 Patented Aug. 27, I878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE;

S. WILLIAM BABBITT, OF WEST MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WILCOXSILVER PLATE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAITERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,475, dated August27, 1878; application filed July 26, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .8. WILLIAM BABBITT, of West Meriden, in the countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvementin Waiters; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, perspective view; Fig. 2, transverse central section.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of waitersdesigned to be carried in the hands of the servant, but is applicable toother uses; and it consists in a principal tray, combined with a secondtray elevated above the principal tray, as more fully hereinafterdescribed.

A represents the principal tray, which may be of any of the usual forms,and having the usual edge upon the front and two ends. At the rear asecond or auxiliary tray, B, is arranged, elevated above the first orprincipal, tray, A, and with an edge around it as a protection to thearticles thereon and, for the purpose of supporting the tray when setupon the table, one or more brackets, C, is arranged beneath theelevated or auxiliary tray, as seen in Fig. 2. For convenience ofcarryingthe tray, a handle, D, is provided at each end.

This construction adds to the convenience of this waiter, in thatarticles placed at the rear are elevated above those in the front, sothat in reaching over from the front to the articles in the rear thedanger of interference with the articles at the front is avoided.

The particular form of the Waiter is immaterial to this invention, asthat will be changed as the use for the Waiter or the demands for thetrade may require. The handles are not essential, as the waiter could beheld without the handles equally as well as ordinary waiters of likecapacity.

The auxiliary or raised tray is represented as offset or set back fromthe principal tray; but, if desired, the principal tray may extendbeneath the auxiliary tray, it only being essential to the inventionthat the auxiliary elevated tray be made as a part of the principal trayand set back from one edge of the principal tray.

I claim- The herein-described waiter, consisting of a principal tray andan auxiliary tray, elevated above the principal tray and set back fromone edge of the principal tray, substantially as described.

S. WVM. BABBITT.

Witnesses:

A. L'STEVENS, W. H. H. SANTY.

